4606 papers
Hep-Th, or high-energy theoretical physics, explores the fundamental building blocks of our universe and the forces that govern them. Researchers in this field use complex mathematics to understand everything from subatomic particles to the behavior of black holes, often pushing the boundaries of what we know about space and time.
At Gist.Science, we monitor the arXiv repository to ensure you stay ahead of the curve in this rapidly evolving discipline. For every new preprint uploaded to arXiv under this category, our team generates both accessible plain-language overviews and detailed technical summaries, making cutting-edge research understandable regardless of your background.
Below are the latest papers in high-energy theoretical physics, curated to help you navigate the most significant recent discoveries.
This paper establishes a general framework for quantizing light-matter theories with time-dependent constraints, demonstrating that the irrotational gauge is uniquely suited for such scenarios while showing that the Coulomb gauge is not generally irrotational and thus lacks a special status in time-dependent interactions.
This paper constructs self-dual center vortices with fractional charges from KvBLLY monopoles on with non-minimal 't Hooft flux to derive semiclassical formulas for confinement and string tensions, ultimately applying these results to evaluate Fibonacci-based twist choices for center stabilization in large- Yang-Mills theory.
This proof-of-concept study proposes that mesoscopic feedback mechanisms naturally generate infinite-range interactions in one-dimensional field theories, leading to phase transitions, spontaneous symmetry breaking, and new universality classes with significant implications for achieving room-temperature ferromagnetism in monolayer spintronics.
Using the PACIAE 4.0 model, this study proposes that the newly observed particle could be a -wave meson, an -wave tetraquark, or a hadro-strangeonium state, and distinguishes these candidates by calculating their production rates and kinematic distributions in collisions.
This paper presents a systematic small- expansion of the Liouville DOZZ three-point structure constant for light operators, deriving closed-form expressions for the perturbative coefficients as symmetric polynomials to provide a practical tool for calculating loop-level corrections in celestial holography.
This paper employs an effective field theory approach to quantify how multiple light axions contribute to the relativistic degrees of freedom (), revealing that their detectability by current and future cosmic microwave background surveys depends sensitively on the flavor structure of their interactions with Standard Model fermions.
By applying the BK equation to model gluon occupancy and entropy, this study demonstrates that while protons remain below the unitarity bound, heavy nuclei reach the "saturon" limit at small , identifying nuclei as the optimal environment for observing this high-occupancy QCD phenomenon.
This paper analyzes entanglement generation in the Schwinger effect for scalar and spinor QED, revealing that while thermal fluctuations suppress bosonic entanglement below a critical temperature, fermionic entanglement persists at finite temperatures and exhibits a non-monotonic dependence on the electric field with a distinct optimal strength.
This paper investigates the finite-temperature Casimir effect in -Minkowski space-time, demonstrating that non-commutativity enhances the attractive force while preserving thermodynamic consistency, and establishes an upper bound on the deformation parameter of m alongside conditions for experimental observability.
This paper introduces a symmetry-breaking protocol using unlearned biases to eliminate extraneous rotational degrees of freedom in transformer attention, a modification that simultaneously enhances the performance of memory-efficient optimizers and enables the interpretable amplification of semantically meaningful tokens.